hoog

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch hoog.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɦʊəχ/

Adjective

hoog (attributive hoë, comparative hoër, superlative hoogste)

  1. high

Antonyms

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hooch, the original inflected stem hō- reanalysed by analogy with the uninflected form because of word-final devoicing. From Old Dutch hōh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.

Cognate with German hoch, West Frisian heech, East Frisian hag, English high, Danish høj.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -oːx
  • IPA(key): /ɦoːx/
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Adjective

hoog (comparative hoger, superlative hoogst)

  1. high
    De 887 meter hoge Mount Scenery is het hoogste punt in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden. ― The 887-metres-high Mount Scenery is the highest place in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
    Het zou te hoog gegrepen zijn om drie talen tegelijkertijd te leren. ― Learning three languages simultaneously would be aiming too high.

Inflection
Inflection of hoog
uninflected hoog
inflected hoge
comparative hoger
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial hooghogerhet hoogst
het hoogste
indefinite m./f. sing. hogehogerehoogste
n. sing. hooghogerhoogste
plural hogehogerehoogste
definite hogehogerehoogste
partitive hoogshogers—

Antonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Estonian

Etymology

Noun

hoog (genitive hoo, partitive hoogu)

  1. impetus

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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